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Quotes from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 — Adrienne Rich

1929–2012 United States

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I think that passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. (from "Power and Danger: Works of a Common Woman" 1977)

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (1979)

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and plainful. ("When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision")

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrienne Rich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.